Will Malaysia Airlines MH370 finally give up its terrible secret?
The Boeing 777 continued to send signals to satellites for more than six hours after its last message: 'All right, good night.' As 14 countries continue the hunt, new questions are being asked

After a week of false leads, U-turns, wild speculation and outright contradictions, it was hard to believe there could be any more surprises in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.

But when Malaysia's prime minister, Najib Razak, finally appeared before the media on Saturday afternoon – almost 45 minutes later than scheduled and for the first time since flight MH370 went missing seven days before – his words were startling.

Not only did investigators believe the plane had been deliberately diverted after its communication systems were switched off, but they believed it had been sending signals to satellites from air or ground as late as 8.11am on Saturday morning, more than six-and-a-half hours after it had lost contact with air control staff and 45 minutes after the Boeing 777 had been declared missing in a statement from the airline.

That final ping came from one of two lengthy air corridors stretching as far as Kazakhstan to the north or the southern Indian Ocean – around western Australia – to the south; by that point, if still in the air, the plane would probably have been almost out of fuel. The initial search area in the South China Sea was no longer relevant, but an even vaster swath of land and sea was now in play.

Crew on a Greek flagged oil tanker are responding to radio reports of suit cases found floating in the Straits of Malacca, between Malaysia and Indonesia, Greek media reported.

The Oil and chemical tanker, the Elka Athina, reported to media that it was steaming toward a zone identified as a field of debris, including what appeared to be aircraft passenger's luggage.

The crew was responding to a report from an Indonesian source, according to the translation of the report.

That's according to two articles published Sunday afternoon Greek time.

The report was not confirmed by any other sources, however one Greek website posted an audio interview with the Elka Athina's first officer confirming the ship was headed to an area after the report of suit cases floating in the northern waters of the Malacca Strait.

There have been several false sightings of debris since Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 went missing over a week ago, including a Chinese satellite image of debris in the south China Sea and reports of an oil slick off Vietnam. All proved to be unrelated to the missing 777-200.

Update: It appears a Reddit user found images of possible wreckage at the exact location of the Greek report in the Malacca Strait. An image of a debris field was seen on high resolution satellite images provided by a US firm in an attempt to find the missing 777-200.

The area is also about the same point where Malaysia last lost verifiable data on the location of MH370 on Saturday, March 8 2014.

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Possible debris in the water in the Ocean off Sumatra, Indonesia in the Malacca Straits.

Users of the social network Reddit and Twitter may have found debris in the water, possibly linked to missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, as a Greek oil tanker steams toward the same spot after Indonesian reports of possible luggage in the water.

Richard Barrow has posted several images to Twitter of a satellite image that could possibly show debris from an airplane on the surface of the Ocean at coordinates 5°39'08.0"N 98°50'38.0"E, after collaborating with users of Reddit over the last 2 days.

Most interestingly, on request of the Indonesian maritime authorities, a Greek flagged oil tanker was steaming to the same location identified by the Reddit and Twitter users late Sunday evening, March 16.

The area is at the same point authorities last lost verifiable contact with MH370, as the plane headed north-west towards the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Below are images posted to Twitter and Reddit by several users, including Journalist Steven Daglas, from location 5°39'08.0"N 98°50'38.0"E.

Life is like a penny, you can spend it on what you like, but you can ONLY spend it once.

Possible debris in the water in the Ocean off Sumatra, Indonesia in the Malacca Straits.

Users of the social network Reddit and Twitter may have found debris in the water, possibly linked to missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, as a Greek oil tanker steams toward the same spot after Indonesian reports of possible luggage in the water.

Richard Barrow has posted several images to Twitter of a satellite image that could possibly show debris from an airplane on the surface of the Ocean at coordinates 5°39'08.0"N 98°50'38.0"E, after collaborating with users of Reddit over the last 2 days.

Most interestingly, on request of the Indonesian maritime authorities, a Greek flagged oil tanker was steaming to the same location identified by the Reddit and Twitter users late Sunday evening, March 16.

The area is at the same point authorities last lost verifiable contact with MH370, as the plane headed north-west towards the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Below are images posted to Twitter and Reddit by several users, including Journalist Steven Daglas, from location 5°39'08.0"N 98°50'38.0"E.

Wishful thinking by some people but i seriously doubt anything that large and heavy and wrecked would be able to float for very long and i really doubt that it would still be floating now anywhere near the surface but more likely resting upon the bottom of the ocean if thats where and what it went down into...

Possible debris in the water in the Ocean off Sumatra, Indonesia in the Malacca Straits.

Users of the social network Reddit and Twitter may have found debris in the water, possibly linked to missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, as a Greek oil tanker steams toward the same spot after Indonesian reports of possible luggage in the water.

Richard Barrow has posted several images to Twitter of a satellite image that could possibly show debris from an airplane on the surface of the Ocean at coordinates 5°39'08.0"N 98°50'38.0"E, after collaborating with users of Reddit over the last 2 days.

Most interestingly, on request of the Indonesian maritime authorities, a Greek flagged oil tanker was steaming to the same location identified by the Reddit and Twitter users late Sunday evening, March 16.

The area is at the same point authorities last lost verifiable contact with MH370, as the plane headed north-west towards the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Below are images posted to Twitter and Reddit by several users, including Journalist Steven Daglas, from location 5°39'08.0"N 98°50'38.0"E.